Lian Hingee
Lian Hingee is digital marketing manager at Readings. She’s been working in books for twenty years.
Review — 31 Jul 2023
My Husband by Maud Ventura & Emma Ramadan (trans.)
A few years ago every second domestic thriller came out with breathless marketing comparing it to Gillian Flynn’s bestselling blockbuster Gone Girl. But few (if any) managed to capture…
Review — 3 Jul 2023
Lioness by Emily Perkins
New Zealand author Emily Perkins’ fierce novel, Lioness, is about what lies beneath the polished veneer of a woman whose charmed life is beginning to unravel.
Therese Thorne has a…
Review — 30 May 2023
Blackwater by Jacqueline Ross
Less than two years after meeting and falling in love with a mysterious and much-older man, a young bride is brought home to his huge and isolated manor…
Set in…
Review — 23 Apr 2023
Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
If you’ve picked up Death of a Bookseller hoping for a cosy crime read featuring a bespectacled protagonist with a penchant for cardigans, you will be sadly disappointed. If, however…
Review — 27 Mar 2023
The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson
It’s 1965. The western world is gripped by anti-communism; Jean Shrimpton has scandalised society by wearing a minidress to the Melbourne Cup; and in Sydney’s Surry Hills garment district, a…
Review — 30 Jan 2023
A Routine Infidelity by Elizabeth Coleman
With the current state of the world right now, it’s no wonder that the cosy crime genre is having a real moment. From Richard Osman’s bestselling Thursday Murder Club series…
Blog post — 23 Nov 2022
Big machine books for little people
If you have a small person in your life, you no doubt have more than a passing knowledge of all things trucks, trains, planes, and automobiles. With Christmas coming, you…
Blog post — 14 Nov 2022
Holiday craft projects to get you in the spirit
We regret to inform you that the holiday season is practically upon us. Christmas displays are going up, Santa grottos are being constructed. If you listen carefully you can hear…
Blog post — 22 Dec 2022
Five Books if you want to learn to sew your own clothes
Growing up in the 80s and 90s I never properly appreciated the home-sewn clothes my mother and grandmother used to make for me. As far as teenage me was concerned…
Review — 26 Apr 2022
Dogger by Shirley Hughes
When I was a child, I had a special teddy called, imaginatively, Ted. Ted went everywhere with me until I lost him, aged 18, at a backpacker hostel in Rome…
